Clint_L
Legend
Rarely.
Not a huge fan of dragons, to begin with. They are hugely overused across pop culture, and so I find them kind of boring, given all the amazing and much more original ideas that RPGs have to offer. I think I've used three in my home games over the past five years, and once at school. Though to be fair, each appearance was memorable, especially the one at school (which was just the young green from Phandelver).
When I do use them, I make sure that there is plenty of space for them to do their thing, and that the party has options to achieve their objective without necessarily having to fight. And I like to use metallic dragons as antagonists and non-metallics as allies more often than not, because I hate the idea that a dragon's personality is derived from the colour of its scales.
Not a huge fan of dragons, to begin with. They are hugely overused across pop culture, and so I find them kind of boring, given all the amazing and much more original ideas that RPGs have to offer. I think I've used three in my home games over the past five years, and once at school. Though to be fair, each appearance was memorable, especially the one at school (which was just the young green from Phandelver).
When I do use them, I make sure that there is plenty of space for them to do their thing, and that the party has options to achieve their objective without necessarily having to fight. And I like to use metallic dragons as antagonists and non-metallics as allies more often than not, because I hate the idea that a dragon's personality is derived from the colour of its scales.
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